The ‘happily ever after’ bit by Bill Kirton
An embryonic prince... OK, it's election day in the UK . The day which decides which particular line of bitter, divisive rhetoric will soften and which, in its frustration, will become even more strident and destructive. Tomorrow the UK will be full of sickening triumphalism and gloomy despair as hapless voters (and non-voters) contemplate a state of affairs that few of them wanted. I hope I'm wrong but I'm resigned to five more years of lies, hypocrisy, platitudes, an ever-widening gap between haves and have-nots, and further proof that not only can we not live the dream, we can't even dream it any more. But this is no place for political speculation, so instead, I’m combining the election with that other great UK (and, it seems, global) news item - the fact that the Cambridges have spawned again. Serendipitously, I have a blog I wrote a year ago which, with some adjustments, will serve as a commentary on today’s double-whammy news. The original was a respon...